All Our Happy Days are Stupid by Sheila Heti
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Category: Plays
Two couples, each with a twelve-year-old child, travel to Paris; within a few moments of discovering each other in a crowd, one of their children disappears. A day later, one of the mothers disappears, too. The story that follows is a wonderfully strange, beautifully composed examination of happiness an ...Show more
A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller
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Category: Plays
Arthur Miller's play A View from the Bridge is a tragic masterpiece of the inexorable unravelling of a man, set in a close-knit Italian-American community in 1950s New York. Eddie Carbone is a longshoreman and a straightforward man, with a strong sense of decency and of honour. For Eddie, it's a privile ...Show more
The River by Jez Butterworth
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Category: Plays
On a moonless night in August, a man brings his new girlfriend to the remote family cabin where he has come for the fly-fishing since he was a boy. But she's not the first woman he has brought here--or indeed the last. A bewitching story from the author of global smash hit "Jerusalem."
Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth
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Category: Plays | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
'My dad said he jumped buses. Horseboxes. Jumped an aqueduct once. He was gonna jump Stonehenge but the council put a stop to it.' On St George's Day, the morning of the local county fair, Johnny Byron, local waster and modern day Pied Piper, is a wanted man. The council officials want to serve him an e ...Show more
Exiles by James Joyce
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Category: Plays
A play in three acts which crystallizes into one situation the determination of an anarchic intellectual to free his life, and the lives of those who are joined to him, from all bonds, all externally imposed obligations of any sort. This absolute and utter freedom leads him into greater difficulties. ...Show more
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
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Category: Plays
Menagerie was Williams's first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda, the play has been the bravura piece for great actresses from ...Show more
The Hard Problem by Tom Stoppard
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Category: Plays | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
Above all don't use the word good as though it meant something in evolutionary science. Hilary, a young psychology researcher at a brain-science institute, is nursing a private sorrow and a troubling question at work, where psychology and biology meet. If there is nothing but matter, what is consciousne ...Show more
Emerald City by David Williamson
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Category: Plays
A fast-moving, wise-cracking commentary on contemporary urban mores and morals, and the rivalries and passions to be encountered on the road to success. Colin, a screenwriter, and his wife Kate, a publisher, move to the 'Emerald City', where fame and fortune are there for the taking, but surprises are i ...Show more
Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Plays
These four last prose fictions by Samuel Beckett were originally published individually, and their composition spanned the final decade of his life. In "Company" a solitary hearer lying in blackness calls up images from the far-off past. "Ill Seen Ill Said" meditates upon an old woman living out her las ...Show more
A Streetcar Named Desire: Penguin Modern Classics by Tennessee Williams
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Category: Plays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Series
Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, brutish husband Stanley. Eve ...Show more
Oxford School Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet: Oxford School Shakespeare by William Shakespeare, Roma Gill
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Category: Plays | Series: Oxford School Shakespeare
Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. This edition of Romeo and Juliet includes illustrations, preliminary notes, re ...Show more
A Doll's House + Hedda Gabler + An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
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Category: Plays | Series: World Classics Ser.
A Doll's House (1879) was Ibsen's first international success, which ''exploded like a bomb into contemporary life. Hedda Gabler (1890) is now one of his most popular plays, but greeted at first with bewilderment and outrage (''The play is simply a bad escape of moral sewage-gas'' Pictorial World). Also ...Show more